yup, they paid a HELL of a lot better than them runnin shine, that's for sure...Frank Matthews, “Black Caesar”, controlled the east coast heroin trade for awhile. State Dept. papers said he had nine C IA employees on his overseas payroll—which was likely the reason he could not get arrested. (Like any small time crook, the big time crooks also payoff or become of service in order to be left alone.)
After he was finally arrested, a federal judge strangely lowered his bail and he split,never to be seen again.
He was followed by Frank Lucas, also from North Carolina.
(Matthews was from Durham, and liked to use ‘hometown’ boys in his organization.)
One imagines that millions in illegal drug money flowed through NC and Durham; which is one reason that state and town’s politics are so screwed up, imho.
yup, they paid a HELL of a lot better than them runnin shine, that's for sure...DEA laundering millions of dollars for the drug cartels by setting up bank accounts for them that they otherwise couldn't do.
DEA and Sinaloa cartel (more links)
DHS Complicit In Drug Cartel Human Trafficking
CONFIRMED: The DEA Struck A Deal With Mexico's Most Notorious Drug Cartel
businessinsider Jan. 13, 2014
This is the same way the British Crown used the opium trade to corrupt and control China.